Posts Tagged ‘ZICTA’

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) is in the process of conducting data collection for the 2015 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) survey. The data collection drive, which began in the first week of August,...

The Zambia Information Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has erected 147 out of 169 new telecommunication towers, which have been earmarked for construction in selected rural parts of Zambia. According to the Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA), the...

The Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) is calling on the private sector to take the lead in creating demand in ICT, by injecting heavier investments into the sector. The move has been proposed in order to give consumers access...

The drafting process of Zambia’s national child online protection strategy has commenced. The strategy, put together by the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA), is expected to avoid exposing youths to dangerous and...

The Times of Zambia reports that ICT authorities have taken legal action against mobile phone service providers over alleged poor service delivery to customers. According to the publication, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority...

In what has been viewed as a major setback for Zambia’s SIM registration process, Airtel Zambia announced that it has run out of SIM registration forms and is unable to continue registering users’ cards as part of a government plan to regulate...

Zambia’s government has urged the country’s telecom regulator to continue to push for greater rural boosting of infrastructure in order to continue to develop telecom services. A parliamentary committee on communications in the East African country...

With an influx of new rural subscribers over the past year, Airtel Zambia reported that it ended 2012 with over 4.6 million subscribers. The company’s head of corporate communications and government relations Chabuka Kawesha confirmed that a...

In an effort to increase quality service monitoring in the East African country, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) has announced its intention to purchase more than $200,000 in equipment. The authority said that the...

According to the Times of Zambia the government has challenged the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) to strengthen laws governing technology, including Internet usage within the country. The use of ICT ought to be more...

With cybercrime increasing, the Zambia Information Communications Authority (ZICTA) announced on Thursday, that it was investing some ZMK 1.3 billion ($582 000) in battling online criminal activity. The money will go towards creating a Computer Incident...